How come the Ace of Cups isn't considered the Holy Grail?

Unlike now, we're almost done with this singularity.

Thinking back, the last time she cleared a Singularity so quickly was probably during Singularity F.

However, speaking of Yuwatari, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly looked around, her gaze passing over the drunken Merlin, Anna quietly eating a cake in the corner, and Mash, who was tidying up with her...

What about ferrying others across the river?

"Ah, Mr. Yudou, he seemed to have mentioned that he was short of some alchemical materials, so he probably went to the storeroom, right?"

Mashu answered her question.

……

Inside the warehouse where various materials are stored.

A day later, Yudo returned to the place, this time in search of materials that could be used to complement the gun cage in his hand.

"Hmm... if we use the gun cage as the main material, it will probably create a card with a sealing effect, right?"

You Du's gaze swept over each of the materials, pondering the goal of this refining process.

"However, it's also possible that it could symbolically connect with Ereshkigal, the god of the underworld, and lead to the creation of cards related to him..."

"However, the [God of the Closed World] card is probably unlikely, right? After all, this gun cage is only an A-grade material..."

The Heart of the Barbarian, the Lantern of the Ghost, the Chains of the Fool...

To match the characteristic of the gun cage that imprisons the souls of the dead, Yuwatari chose mostly materials related to the soul.

That ghost lantern had been placed in this warehouse at some point, and it looked quite old. The soul inside was either burned away or had run away, no one knew.

The earthenware pots that he had previously asked Fujimaru Ritsuka to find were still sitting in the storeroom untouched. Even though materials had been arriving in the storeroom in the past two days, the soldiers generally held a sense of incomprehension but respect towards these earthenware pots.

The king's guest must have had his reasons for doing this.

However, this made things easier for You Du. He directly used the [Fusion] card on all three pottery pots, and then allocated the materials to be added to each one.

He plans to create more monster cards during this time.

This way, when Tiamat awakens and Rahmu appears and invades, they can protect the people of Uruk, preventing situations where someone is watching a game with Tiamat only to find that almost everyone behind them is dead.

The first thing to do was to put the gun cage into the pot. You Du raised his hand and watched as the gun cage slowly sank into the vortex of fusion.

Farewell, cage!

Just after the gun cage that Yuto had thrown in completely disappeared into the vortex, Yuto felt that the surrounding environment had become slightly cooler.

Next are the Ghost Lantern and the Fool's Lock, which have similar effects to the Gun Cage.

Theoretically speaking, even if he were to dig up a brick or some soil in the underworld, he could use it as material for this refining process.

Since they are both from the underworld, they must be very compatible with the gun cage.

"What a pity, why didn't I think of taking a brick back with me before I left?"

He placed the primal god's heart last, and after putting it in as well, Yudu checked the balance between the elements in the pot. Seeing that there was nothing seriously wrong, he stopped paying attention to it.

His gaze shifted to the other two pots.

……

Black cedar forest.

Blood Temple.

Jingu surveyed the passage formed by the rounded eggs of blood and flesh.

"Hmm... the next batch of magical beasts is about to be born..."

Although the plan for the last monster tide failed due to Gorgon, Kingu does not intend to launch another monster tide of that scale.

Not only is it a waste of time, but the most important thing is that it is quite troublesome to keep them all in one area.

Therefore, he plans to lead this batch of soon-to-hatch monsters directly to the North Wall to launch an attack.

Jingu walked to the end of the road, checked on Gorgon's condition while he was still sleeping, and then left with a sigh of relief.

Hopefully, my mother won't cause any more trouble this time.

Chapter 88 [The Reversal Between the Realm of Life and the Underworld]

"Someone, bring me ten more of those monstrous bones from over there!"

"Wheel! Go find the heart of a primal god!"

"Gather all the monster blood and claws together first, then we'll break them down!"

"..."

Inside the warehouse where materials were stored, many small figures dressed in different clothes and with different appearances were carrying all kinds of materials, while a red shadow moved back and forth quickly between the gaps.

Yudu stood with his back to the door in front of the only table in the center of the warehouse, with three earthenware pots in front of him. He was currently putting the materials handed to him by the scrap collector next to him into one of the pots.

When Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu arrived at the warehouse, they were greeted by this bustling scene.

Fujimaru Ritsuka & Mashu: ?

The reason they came here can be traced back to the communication they received from Chaldea after waking up that morning.

In short, this morning Dr. Roman discovered that the electricity consumption in Chaldea had suddenly surged, and several less important rooms had even experienced a complete power outage, requiring emergency lights to maintain illumination.

Even the strawberry cake he hid in the refrigerator in one of the rooms was affected!

After checking and ruling out causes such as generator malfunction, he discovered that the source was the depletion of magic power from Fujimaru Ritsuka's side, so he mentioned this to her after she woke up.

Upon hearing Roman's description of the unusual magic power depletion, both Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu simultaneously conjured up the image of Yuuto in their minds.

It wasn't that they discovered any clues, but currently, the only Servants who have signed contracts with Fujimaru Ritsuka are Mash, Anna, and Yuwatari.

Mash is right in front of her now, and Merlin is watching Anna, so it's unlikely that she'll expend much magic power.

That leaves only Yudo.

But they couldn't figure out why their magic was being consumed. It couldn't possibly be because they had fought with the enemy, could it?

This is in Uruk, right under King Gilgamesh's nose!

I can't say for sure that he won't encounter any enemies, but even if he does, given the effect of Yuwatari's Noble Phantasm, most enemies wouldn't be able to do anything to him.

Unable to figure it out, the two went to the warehouse to look for Youdu, but they never expected to see this scene as soon as they opened the door...

What is this doing?

Fujimaru Ritsuka naturally recognized these little guys who had appeared during Yudo's duel with Quetzalcoatl and Ereshkigal.

Scrap Synchronizer, Wheel Synchronizer, Revolution Synchronizer, Stardust Synchronizer...

Fujimaru Ritsuka felt as if she knew where those abnormal magical energy consumptions came from.

Watching these short little guys working together to sort the piled-up materials and find the materials that You Du needed and pass them to him as requested, the two of them stood at the door, unsure whether they should go in and disturb You Du.

"Is there a problem?"

Just as they stood at the door, at a loss, Yubel's strange half-human, half-dragon figure emerged from a dark corner.

"Ah, it's you!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka was deeply impressed by Yubel, after all, the way he casually blocked the huge stone pillar and light gun used by Ereshkigal for his attack was truly awe-inspiring.

However, what surprised her now was not Yubel's existence, but something else.

"So you can talk?!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes widened and she blurted out the answer instinctively, but she quickly realized what she had said and hurriedly tried to correct herself.

"Uh, sorry, I didn't mean anything by it. It's just that you didn't say a single word when you were fighting Ereshkigal, so I thought... cough cough, little, uh... um, may I ask what your name is?"

"Yubel".

Yubel ignored what Fujimaru Ritsuka said and simply casually mentioned his own name.

As for her not speaking... it's mainly because they usually only need to communicate with Yuuto internally, and they don't need to communicate with anyone other than Yuuto, so they don't talk much.

"We've brought in a new monster corpse!"

Just then, another batch of monster corpses was brought over from the north wall by the soldiers outside the warehouse, but describing the corpses as 'new' felt a bit odd...

Yubel glanced at the uncut monster corpses piled outside the warehouse, then looked back at the two people standing at the door.

"His business will take some time to finish. Is there something urgent you need to discuss with him?"

The two people who had come to check on the situation and were just there for no reason shook their heads and stepped aside.

Yubel nodded and said nothing more.

After leaving, she dragged the corpse of a monster into the storeroom with one hand, and then used her claws to cut up the materials on the monster's body, handing them over to the other Synchrons for sorting and storage.

……

"【Dark Zebra】, 【Flame Tiger】, 【Giant Horned Mammoth】...Are they all beast-type monsters again?"

Having just completed one round of refining, You Du took out the refined cards from the earthenware pot, looked at them, and then gathered them together with the other cards and put them aside.

These were the results of his overnight refining process. However, because he subconsciously followed the usual steps of finding materials, selecting materials, and starting the refining process at the beginning, he wasted a lot of time.

He felt better when he realized what was happening in the morning and summoned his Synchrons and Yubel to help him, but due to the time limit for crafting, he still couldn't craft many cards.

Furthermore, since the materials used in the crafting process were mostly obtained from magical beasts, most of the cards he crafted, except for the one he crafted yesterday using a gun cage as the main material, "Reversal of Reality and Underworld," were related to the beast race.

The Reversal of Reality and the Underworld

[Common Traps]

Only one card with this name can be activated during a Duel. This card can only be activated if both players have 15 or more cards in their Graveyards. Each player then exchanges all cards from their Deck and Graveyard, and then shuffles their Deck.

A small portion of the shipments went astray, but they only resulted in cards related to the Bird/Beast and Beast/Warrior races.

There were even some duplicate cards appearing, such as this [Dark Zebra] card, which had already been crafted before.

After putting away the card, You Du put in the prepared materials one by one, and took the opportunity to stretch his body while waiting for the refining to finish.

As soon as he turned his waist, he saw the Chaldea duo squatting by the wall next to him, staring straight at him.

Yuuto: "...Uh, good morning, Master. Are you guys...playing a game of imitating mushrooms?"

"But it seems you're missing an umbrella?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka & Mashu: "..."

What words!

They thoughtfully found a spot on the edge to squat down because they were worried about affecting You Du and the others, intending to talk to him after he finished his business.

This doesn't look like playing at all!

After listening to Fujimaru Ritsuka's indignant explanation, Yuuto finally couldn't help but retort.

“What I’m saying is, Master, you guys were watching when I was performing the transmutation, weren’t you? You didn’t seem to be worried about these things back then…”

Fujimaru Ritsuka remained silent.

Could she say that she was so frightened by the sight she saw when she first came in that she forgot about it?

Chapter 89 Merlin: Damn it! My image!

The conversation between Yuuto and Fujimaru Ritsuka did not last long before it was interrupted by Siduri, who had been sent by Gilgamesh to discuss matters with them.

As for why Yuwatari was so busy crafting cards, she only had time to hear one reason: it was to protect the citizens of Uruk.

However, this reason is enough. Since it is to protect the people of Uruk, then we have no choice but to trouble the doctors in Chaldea.

Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes darted around as she pondered how to explain this to Dr. Roman later.

Anyway, the rooms that lost power weren't important rooms, so let it go...

Surely a doctor wouldn't hide his strawberry cake in the refrigerator of one of the rooms, would he?

Haha, how is that possible?

While Fujimaru Ritsuka was lost in thought, they had already followed Siduri into the Divine Tower.

"Yo!"

Merlin stood beneath the throne and casually waved to Youdu and the others. Anna stood beside him, while Ishtar and Quetzalcoatl faced them.

It seems everyone has been called over...

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded to Ushiwakamaru, Musashibo Benkei, and Leonidas, who were standing in a neat row.